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Authorities extradited Néstor Isidro Pérez Salas, known as El Nini or the Slacker, from Mexico to the US. Prosecutors claim that El Nini served as a “lead assassin” for the sons of drug kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The US seeks him on drug trafficking and weapons charges, which he denies. US officials had offered…
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Authorities prepared for an only-in-America blockbuster trial, featuring a former president in the dock, Donald Trump. This case promised salacious details and forced Trump, once the world’s most powerful figure and now vying for power again, to face allegations of an awkward sexual encounter with a porn actress. The trial became a political and legal…
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On Friday, families of the victims of the 2022 Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting filed two lawsuits against Instagram’s parent company Meta, Activision Blizzard and its parent Microsoft, and the gunmaker Daniel Defense. They claim these companies cooperated to market dangerous weapons to impressionable teens, including the Uvalde shooter. The wrongful death complaints argue that…
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Live Nation and its Ticketmaster unit face the first in a likely wave of new consumer antitrust lawsuits after the U.S. government and states sued to break up the two companies on Thursday. The first consumer class action, filed later that day in Manhattan federal court, seeks $5 billion in damages on behalf of potentially…
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FTX’s bankruptcy lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell were not complicit in the fraud that led to the crypto company’s collapse, concluded a court-appointed examiner on Thursday. In November, a court convicted former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried of stealing $8 billion from FTX customers. Creditors and investors accused the company’s lawyers at Sullivan & Cromwell of…
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Melina Abdullah, a leading Black Lives Matter activist and co-founder of BLM-LA, lost her lawsuit on Thursday against the Los Angeles Police Department regarding their response to hoax “swatting” calls that resulted in an armed police presence at her home. Abdullah, who is also a professor at Cal State LA, filed the lawsuit following two…
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In a shocking development, a woman has come forward with allegations of rape against music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs, adding to the mounting accusations against him. According to TMZ, April Lampros has filed a lawsuit claiming that Diddy sexually assaulted her in the 1990s while she was a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology.…
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On Thursday, Georgia prosecutors announced their decision to appeal a judge’s ruling that dismissed some criminal counts in the 2020 election subversion case against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and several of his allies. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who oversees the case, stated that a state appeals court’s decision to review Trump’s bid…
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Jurors could render their verdict in Donald Trump’s hush money case as soon as next week, potentially impacting the 2024 White House race. Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up a payment that secured the silence of porn star Stormy Daniels shortly before the 2016 election. Daniels…
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Jury selection begins on Wednesday in the criminal trial of exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui. U.S. prosecutors accuse Guo of defrauding thousands of investors and supporters out of more than $1 billion. The trial, overseen by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan, could extend into July. Prosecutors aim to prevent Guo, a fierce critic…
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